A few months ago, I was hanging out with my friend when she got a text. She opened it and laughed, leaning over to show me a picture of an Reese’s peanut butter cup.
Apparently, her colleague (who’d texted her the picture) has a weakness for Reese’s peanut butter cups — in the pack of two, it was almost impossible for him to only eat one.
In an amazing act of willpower, he had somehow managed to curb his “addiction” and only eat one, hence the celebratory picture of the lone uneaten peanut butter cup.
I laughed along with my friend, and our conversation meandered on. But this simple (mundane?) interaction between my friend and her colleague got me thinking:
Who would I send a picture of an uneaten Reese’s peanut butter cup to?
At that moment, I felt that there was nobody I would send a picture like that to. My life at that…
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